Oppose Bad Nominees

The Trump Administration continues to nominate poor choices for a variety of important posts. You have the power to affect this process by voicing opposition to these nominees to your Representative and Senators. Their contact information is at the bottom of the page.

The website 5calls.org at https://5calls.org/ provides more information on the advisability and process of calling your representatives. Please check it out!

Nominee to Oppose

Status of the Nomination

Andrew Wheeler, Virginia

Deputy Administrator of the EPA

HOT ACTION FOR RIGHT NOW!!!

Oppose the Approval of Andrew Wheeler as the Next Deputy Administrator of the EPA

Latest Action: 2/7/18: Placed on Senate Executive Calendar. Calendar No. 666. Subject to nominee’s commitment to respond to requests to appear and testify before any duly constituted committee of the Senate.

Date Received from President: 10/5/2017

About: Wheeler is a climate denier and coal lobbyist.

Call and email Senators Warner and Kaine (contact information at the bottom of the page) and ask them to vote against this nomination. This vote will take place in the next few days. Wheeler would be No. 2 at EPA, which makes him in line to be the next head of EPA.

Steven Gardner, Kentucky

Director of the Office of Surface Mining

Oppose the Approval of Steven Gardner as the Next Director of the Office of Surface Mining

Latest Action: 01/08/2018 – Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Date Received from President: 10/30/2017

About: Gardner has shown time and again that he will try and fight anything that gets in the way of profits for coal executives – even if it means sacrificing the health of the families and communities in Kentucky. Throughout his career he has shown nothing but contempt for science-based clean air and water protections for working people, and dutifully pandered to corporate polluters instead of the advice of doctors and public-health professionals.